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Security modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:13:48 -0000

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 Once the bug has been fixed, we can provide public thanks and acknowledgment on this page:

+* June 2026 - [Hassam Khalid](https://linkedin.com/in/hassam-khalid-96b3321bb) - Information Disclosure

 * Jan 2026 - [Mohamed Mahmoud](https://x.com/Mohamed87Khayat) - Information Disclosure
 * Sep 2025 - Fatima Batool Riaz - Rate limiting
 * Oct 2021 - [Ahmed Sherif](https://twitter.com/sherif_ninja) - SSRF vulnerability

Mercurial modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:57:06 -0000

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 Once Mercurial has been enabled, you may wish to [adjust permission grants](Mercurial Permissions) for your users, if you need to disable one or more user's ability to make changes in the Mercurial repository.

 The standard way to modify the contents of your repository is using a Mercurial client as detailed in [Distributed revision control with Mercurial](http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-basics.html#x6-310002.2). Refer to the Getting Started section for how to make your first commit to your new repository.
-
-Administrators may also manually manipulate their repository via the site interactive shell service.

 ##Options

Release Files for Download modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:54:04 -0000

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-SourceForge.net provides a [File Manager](Files) as a means for projects to make files available for download by their users. In addition to the web-based File Manager, SourceForge provides an [interactive-shell service](Shell Service) for managing files. The File Manager and the interactive shell service provide different methods to manipulate the same files and folders. See Accessing Releases via Shell later in this document for more information.
+SourceForge.net provides a [File Manager](Files) as a means for projects to make files available for download by their users. In addition to the web-based File Manager, SourceForge provides access via SFTP, SCP, and Rsync protocols to manipulate the same files and folders. 

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Table of Contents - SourceForge.net Documentation modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:49:02 -0000

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-##V. [Project Web Services and Developer Web Services](Project Web and Developer Web)
-###A. [Project Web Services](Project Web Services)
-###B. [Developer Web Services](Developer Web Services)
-###C. PW and DW Details
+##V. [Project Web Services](Project Web Services)
+###A. Project Web Details
 1. [Custom VHOSTs](Custom VHOSTs)
 1. Use of [SF.net logo](SourceForge Logo)
 1. Managing Files

File Management modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:44:41 -0000

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 * **File Release System**: `/home/frs/project/PROJECTNAME/`
 * **Project Home Directory**: `/home/project-web/PROJECTNAME/`
 * **Project web**: `/home/project-web/PROJECTNAME/htdocs/` and `/home/project-web/PROJECTNAME/cgi-bin/`
-* **Developer web**: `/home/user-web/USERNAME/htdocs/` and `/home/user-web/USERNAME/cgi-bin/`

 
 **Note:** In many cases, intermediate directories will appear empty (eg., **/home/project-web/** ), but their contents are simply hidden. You want to use the full path as indicated above.
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 $ 
 ~~~~

-## Uploading Developer web content using the command-line SFTP client
-
-~~~~
-$ sftp jsmith@web.sourceforge.net
-Connecting to web.sourceforge.net...
-The authenticity of host 'web.sourceforge.net (216.34.181.57)' can't be established.
-RSA key fingerprint is 68:b3:26:02:a0:07:e4:78:d4:ec:7f:2f:6a:4d:32:c5.
-Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
-Warning: Permanently added 'web.sourceforge.net,216.34.181.57' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
-jsmith@web.sourceforge.net's password:
-sftp> cd /home/user-web/jsmith/htdocs/
-sftp> put *
-Uploading image1.png to /home/user-web/ctsai/htdocs/image1.png
-image1.png                                                         100%   72KB  71.6KB/s   00:00    
-Uploading image2.png to /home/user-web/ctsai/htdocs/image2.png
-image2.png                                                         100%   34KB  33.9KB/s   00:00    
-Uploading index.php to /home/user-web/ctsai/htdocs/index.php
-index.php                                                          100%   50     0.1KB/s   00:00    
-sftp> exit
-~~~~

 ## Backing up File Release System content via rsync

SFTP modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:43:59 -0000

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 #SFTP
-SourceForge.net provides support for managing project web, developer web content, and uploading file releases using SFTP through our File management service.
+SourceForge.net provides support for managing project web content, and uploading file releases using SFTP through our File management service.

 SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is part of the SSH protocol suite. SFTP is not the same as FTP; SFTP is a modern, encrypted protocol and FTP is an old, unencrypted protocol. We do not support FTP.

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 Port: 22
 In this example, we are using the username jfdev and the project sf-training
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/EwytcM6.png)
-The same applies to managing Developer webspace, you just have to enter the path `/home/userweb/htdocs/`
 To manage Project web space,  enter the path `/home/project-web/PROJECT_UNIX_NAME/htdocs/`

Custom VHOSTs modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:43:16 -0000

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 Virtual Hosts (VHOSTs) are a way of supporting many websites using a single pool of web servers. Each project on SourceForge.net is allocated on the `PROJECTNAME.sourceforge.io` VHOST for their Project Web site.

 Some projects elect to register a vanity domain (such as PROJECTNAME.com). Through our Custom VHOST service, project administrators may configure our servers to answer traffic for those domains.
-
-Note: The VHOST facility is not available for the Developer web space.

 ##Step 1: Register the domain
 Domain name registration is not typically free; there is an initial cost that registers the domain name for some period of time, then ongoing renewal fees to keep the domain registered. You are responsible for these fees.

File Manager Backups modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:43:00 -0000

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 #Using the file management service for backups
-SourceForge.net provides a wide array of services, including developer web and project web. We encourage all users to back up their developer web data and project web data. Backups can be done with the file management service, accessible through web.sourceforge.net
+SourceForge.net provides a wide array of services, including  project web hosting. We encourage all users to back up their project web data. Backups can be done with the file management service, accessible through web.sourceforge.net


 #Retrieval methods
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 Examples for retrieving backups using each of these protocols are shown below. In these examples, replace U with the first letter of your SourceForge.net username, US with the first two letters of your username, USER with your entire username. Similarly, replace PROJECT with the whole UNIX group name of your project.

 #rsync
-
-To synchronize your SourceForge.net home directory to a local copy:
-
-    rsync -avzPL -e ssh USER@web.sourceforge.net:/home/users/U/US/USER ./sf-net-backup-homedir

 To synchronize your SourceForge.net project directory to a local copy:

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 #SFTP

-Follow the instructions on the Developer web and Project web pages for access using SFTP and substitute put with get.  E.g.:
+Follow the instructions on the Project web pages for access using SFTP and substitute put with get.  E.g.:

     get htdocs/index.html

Backups modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:41:27 -0000

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 Project Tool Data (tickets, wiki, discussion, blog, etc.) | [Project Data Export](/p/forge/documentation/Project Data Export/)
 SCMs (svn, git, hg) | [rsync](/p/forge/documentation/rsync Backups/)
 File Release System (FRS) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
-User home directory (including Developer web) | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Project web | [File Management service](/p/forge/documentation/File Management/)
 Mailing lists | [Mailing list archive backups](/p/forge/documentation/Mailing List Archives/) (mbox files)

rsync Backups modified by Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:41:12 -0000

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 rsync clients are available for all modern Operating System platforms. Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X users typically already have rsync installed since it is generally included with the Operating System. MS Windows users can obtain rsync from the Cygwin project.

-## Project web and developer web
-Our file management service is available to project developers to read-write rsync access to project web and developer web content.
+## Project web 
+Our file management service is available to project developers to read-write rsync access to project web content.

 ## Code Repos